Social Worker, Young Adults Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Adult Social Worker to join their Young Adult Team in Cambridgeshire. This part-time position involves providing leadership in complex case arrangements, ensuring the safety and well-being of service users. The ideal candidate will have a professional Social Work qualification and a strong understanding of relevant legislation. You will play a key role in safeguarding and empowering service users while promoting diversity and inclusion. Join a forward-thinking organization that values equality and offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent required.
• Good understanding of relevant legislation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for complex case arrangements involving risk and safety.
• Identify needs of service users and source appropriate solutions.
• Oversee cases of individuals lacking capacity to plan their care.

Skills

Leadership in complex case arrangements

Assessment of service users' needs

Adult safeguarding

Social work practice skills

Report writing for legal purposes

Education

Professional Social Work qualification

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Worker within the Young Adult Team part time based in Cambridgeshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £40,958 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide leadership for complex case arrangements, in situations which involve risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
2. Identifying through assessment the needs and strengths of service users and/or family carers and source appropriate solutions and interventions.
3. Complete support planning with service users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
4. Identify and take a professional lead on adult safeguarding issues where abuse or neglect is suspected.
5. Take a professional lead and oversee cases of individuals who lack capacity to agree to or plan their care, undertake proportionate assessment in accordance with current Adult Social Care legislation including Mental Capacity Act and Best Interest assessments.
6. Provide more specialist social work practice skills and knowledge to make independent decisions and support situations in which risk, ambiguity or complexity is greatest.
7. Provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for courts and other legal purposes, which are concise, informative, and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolution.
8. Support in safeguarding process to assess and manage risk, knowing how to intervene proportionately and ensuring people are protected from harm, while protecting their human rights.
9. To take a key role in promoting and developing service user empowerment and recognising diversity and anti-discriminatory practice in all professional practice in the team.
10. Provide supervision or mentoring to a non-registered professional, a Student Social Worker, or an Apprentice Social Worker, or a Newly Qualified Social Worker where this is required and appropriate.
11. Carry out duties in a timely and responsive manner, in line with Social Work England Standards, the Professional Capability Framework and Cambridgeshire County Council behaviours - working together, integrity, respect, excellence.

Requirements:

1. A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Registered or eligible for registration.
4. Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:

This Social Worker role is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant role in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.